File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.' [‎162r] (11/840)

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At th« Uo«»l«m worA^rw#® At l«9«rA ill July IV ; -4 *
resolution wws pmauo4 (the i^jnKUaa, Afghan and 'fundLah
delegates abstaining# that An the Ababa and itaan areas are
*of the Hejast territoriee belonging to the Maelema
and
:t m& Iherlf All, eon of Sheri* hues*in, ban agreed with his
brother Abdullah to hare them separated from the liej&s and
"aaneaed to Trai:sjorda4^ia f
"a X^gaX Aing of the h^jaa
and as Sharif kXi was not
and as .r-nejurd^nia is
"under a nen^iAeaXeis oountr^ In a new arrangement usiled
we ash the ruler of the HeJan to ende* rear
mandate
“'to reaitne<% ^Aaba arid ^san to the iiejas by all me^s and to
”mk the Moslem world in general to help him"*
i'fce ^Tfc&tjf negotiations whieh hr* Jordan Is to
open with ibn Hand In Horenber neat will onoe mr* fooas
attention upon the dietriots of icaba /And ^aaiu Mr* Jordan
la to attempt to obtain Xbn r^eA 9 s signature to a protocol
defining the boondar/ of the Hejai and franejordan as running
from south o .idaba to a point south of Mudawarra on the
Hejas railway* Xbrt laud map be oxpeeted to resist this
proposal in riow of the resolution of the <?oea Oeagroao
quoted abore* In that dooument it is noteworthy that the
Cengross aooumes that the distrleta of Maan aod .Ababa art now
part of ?r&nsJordan ai*d does not sail upon Ibn 'and to refuse
to girt th a up but to "endoarour to rtssmsw" them. It
also assumes th&t ex«»j£lng Hi ^are the distriot*' up to his
brother ibAuAlah* whereas ul newer did more than V oitly
rose«ml»e our declaration that the dlstriots belORged to
fransJordan*
The reason giweu by the dongreso for the inslusion
of ^aan and Ababa in the Hejas is that they are and always
hare beuo part of the Moslem Holy land* faie arguseent ean be
refuted/